SYLVESTER B. BECKETT-O, Lady, Sing that Song Again'

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CHARLES P ROBERTS-The Sleep of Nature,.

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BENJ. A. G. FULLER-Faith. Hope, Charity,.

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'FLORENCE PERCY,-June Shower,.

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EDWARD M. FIELD-My Sister,..

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MELVILLE W. FULLER-Remorse,.

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MISS FANNY P. LAUGHTON-Castles in the Fire,.

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GEORGE W. SNow-The Tempest Driven,..

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MISS HANNAH E BRADBURY-The Covered Bridge,.

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MISS SARAH W. SPAULDING-The Storm and the Rainbow,.

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CHARLES P. ILSLEY-O this is not my Home.'.

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MISS HANNAH A. MOORE-The Spirit of Song,.
LEWIS DELA-Law vs Saw,.

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MISS SARAH HAYFORD-The Sleeping Babe,.

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ORIGINAL POEMS.

BACCHANALIAN SONG-Melville W. Fuller,.
PANSIES-Miss F. P. Laughton,.

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THE FORSAKEN ARBOR-Benj. A. G. Fuller,.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

SHIP OF STATE.

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,

With all its hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate?

We know what Master laid thy keel,

What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat,
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'Tis of the wave, and not the rock;
'Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempests' roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,

Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,

Are all with thee,-are all with thee!

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

AGE, 47 YEARS.

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW is a son of the late Hon. Stephen Longfellow, and a native of Portland, in which city he was born on the twenty-seventh day of February, 1807. He was graduated from Bowdoin College, in the class of 1825, and being desirous of visiting the scenes of beauty and grandeur in the old world, he soon after made an extended tour through England, France, Spain, Germany and Italy, which occupied nearly four years. Much of this time was given to the study of the languages, manners and customs, and historical incidents of the different nations that he visited. For nearly five years, after his return, he occupied the chair of Professor of Modern Languages, in Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine, from which he was a graduate. In 1835, he again visited Europe, accompanied by his wife, to whom he was married four years previous, and who died very suddenly during the ensuing winter, while they were sojourning at Heidelberg. He spent considerable time in Germany, Tyrol and Switzerland, and Denmark and Sweden, devoting himself to the study of Northern languages and literature. He returned home during the fall of 1836, and received the appointment of Professor of French and Spanish Languages, in Harvard University, at Cambridge, Mass., where he still resides.

Mr. Longfellow's first efforts in literature were made while he was a Sophomore in Bowdoin College, as a contributor to the "United States Literary Gazette," by which he acquired considerable popularity among the reading community; he was also a contributor to the "North American Review," while a Professor in the College. In 1839, he published "Hyperion," of which Dr. Griswold, a very able critic, says, "it is one of the most beautiful prose compositions in our lan